1 posted on
08/30/2013 9:40:21 AM PDT by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
2 posted on
08/30/2013 9:44:45 AM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Lorianne; Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
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3 posted on
08/30/2013 9:48:06 AM PDT by
Squawk 8888
(I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
To: Lorianne
One of the most remarkable raids in military history.
Thanks for the post.
5 posted on
08/30/2013 9:54:34 AM PDT by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: Lorianne
Too many good men did not come back.
6 posted on
08/30/2013 9:55:47 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the people. T Jefferson)
To: Lorianne
There are some WW2 actions that showed the highest degree of courage and inventiveness. (e.g. Dolittle raid, Dam Busters, Breaking Ultra, D Day landing, deceptions and logistics ,,,,,)
This is among the top ones in my mind
How’d they do it? No one told them they couldn’t ! (it was a different era).
7 posted on
08/30/2013 9:55:58 AM PDT by
llevrok
("It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words....." - Geo. Orwell)
To: Lorianne
9 posted on
08/30/2013 10:51:55 AM PDT by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: Lorianne
This was an amazing raid and these men were real heroes. It took nerves of steal to stay on course at such a low altitude in heavy flak to pull this off.
But in hindsight the amount of damage done in light of quick repairs probably made the price in lives too high.
To: Lorianne
The photo was one of many produced and analyzed in a top secret aerial reconnaissance program during WWII.
RAF Medmenham was a Royal Air Force unit based at Danesfield House near Medmenham, in Buckinghamshire, England. The unit specialized in photographic intelligence, and was once the home of the RAF Intelligence Branch. RAF Medmenham was to imagery intelligence, what Bletchley Park was to signals intelligence.
In April 1941 an RAF photographic interpretation unit (PIU) moved to Danesfield House, Medmenham,
Here are some sources:
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/Unit-Info/4125
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/4059
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/spies-3d.html
I saw the Nova program earlier this summer. It's available at their site, though not to me when I just tried - "due to right restrictions" -likely because I'm in Canada. It's billed as being about the German Rocket Program but was about much more.
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